The Fiat Ducato is the best-selling LCV in Italy (2014 model shown). * See the Top 10 best-selling LCVs, rentals, private and company cars by clicking on the title! * Better late than never! Thanks to Flavio and UNRAE I can share with you more detail about the Italian market…
The Dacia Duster is among the 10 most popular vehicles in Italy for the 2nd time ever. * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 45 brands by clicking on the title! * Now updated with actuals for the Top 50 models Up 5% year-on-year to 114,691 registrations, July…
The Opel Astra is back up two spots to #11 year-to-date in Europe. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 350 best-selling models and Top 60 brands! * As is the tradition on BSCB we now spend some time studying the year-to-date rankings for Europe in order to extract longer-term trends.…
Fiat Nuova 500 with the original model. * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 44 brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Italy are up an encouraging 4% year-on-year in June to a still very weak 128,270 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 761,842…
Fiat Abarth 500 (US model shown) * NOW UPDATED with the Top 350 models and Top 60 brands! Click on title to see * Now that we have explored in detail the European models ranking for April we look into the evolution of the year-to-date sales charts to extract longer-term…
Fiat 500L * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 44 brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Italy are back into negative in May at -4% to 132,555 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 633,065 units, still up 3% on 2013. Below the Fiat…
The Fiat 500L is up to #2 in 2014 at home in Italy. * NOW UPDATED with actuals for the Top 50 best-selling models & Top 45 All-brands! * The Italian new car market is up a very shy 2% year-on-year in April to 119,803 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to…
The Wuling Hongguang launched this month in India as the Chevrolet Enjoy. * This is Part 4 of 5 in my series on Chinese carmakers abroad. See also Part 1 (Africa), Part 2 (Latin America), Part 3 (Eastern Europe) and Part 5 (Mature markets) * In the first 3 parts of this series we observed that…
The Fiat 500L is up to an all-time high #2. * NOW UPDATED with actuals for the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 44 All-brands! * After 44 consecutive months of year-on-year decline, the Italian car market seems to now have got its mojo back: March marks the third time…
Renault Captur * See the Top 175 best-selling models and Top 42 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The Dutch new car market takes a harsh hit this month: down 17% year-on-year to 29,530 registrations, which means the year-to-date total is now down 7% on 2013 to 107,265 units.…
Fiat Panda in Napoli, Italy * See the Full Photo Report by clicking on the title! * Last time I visited Italy was in August 2013 in Vintimiglia, and there the Fiat 500 was so omnipresent in the streets that I called the Photo Report "a Fiat 500-mania". This weekend…
Skoda Octavia * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * You can see the Europe February 2014 Brands article here After studying the European brands ranking in detail yesterday, let's now have a look at the models ranking, in a market brilliantly up year-on-year for…
Seat Leon * See the Top 100 best-selling models and Top 37 brands by clicking on the title! * The Swiss new car market is down 1% year-on-year in February to 21,931 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 42,145 units, down2 % on 2013. Brand-wise, below Volkswagen stable at 12.2%…
Fiat 500L * See the Top 90 best-selling models and Top 33 All-brands by clicking on the title! * It has now been almost one year (11 months exactly) that the Slovenian new car market shows year-on-year improvement, with February at +6% to 4,047 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to…
Fiat Panda * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 44 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The Italian new car market enjoys a third consecutive month of year-on-year gain in February, up a splendid 8% to 119,117 registrations, which bring the year-to-date total to 238,223 units, up 6%…